New Release of the AlgoSec Security Management Suite Includes Availability of BusinessFlow™, Extends Device Support and Enables Deeper Integration With Existing Systems

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Feb 25, 2013) - AlgoSec, the market leader for Network Security Policy Management, today announced the latest version of the AlgoSec Security Management Suite. The new version marks the general availability of AlgoSec BusinessFlow as an integral product of the suite, delivering innovative, application-centric security policy management that boosts business agility and the availability of enterprise applications. Additional enhancements to the Security Management Suite include extended device support, deeper integration capabilities, enhanced reporting and performance and IPv6 support.

BusinessFlow aligns application owners and network security teams by providing visibility of critical business applications and the underlying security policy that enables their complex connectivity requirements. With BusinessFlow, network teams can now understand the impact of any network changes on application availability and security policy management. Now business applications can be centralized and automated throughout their entire lifecycle, from deployment to ongoing maintenance and decommissioning.

"Ideally, it should be possible to manage security policies from the perspective of the business applications they are intended to support, as opposed to requiring an intimate knowledge of nebulous, network-level attributes," said Mark Bouchard, CISSP and Founder of the AimPoint Group. "This is essential to bridging the divide that exists between network, security, and applications personnel in today's IT departments, and holds the key to maximizing application availability, reducing risk from unauthorized access, and unlocking greater degrees of IT agility."

IPv6 Support - The AlgoSec Suite now enables monitoring and management of IPv6 firewall policies, including the ability to present IPv6 objects and rule definitions and detect and present rule and object changes.

Faster Performance - Infrastructure enhancements deliver significant performance and operational improvements to support the world's most demanding enterprise environments. Change workflow calculations are now processed up to 15 times faster and firewall policy analysis is up to 50 times faster.

"Organizations are becoming less tolerant of the supposedly inevitable tradeoff between improving security and maintaining business agility," said Avishai Wool, CTO, AlgoSec. "The automation provided by the AlgoSec Security Management Suite across numerous devices and processes delivers the tightest policy that dramatically improves the protection of systems and information yet enables security organizations to keep up with the pace of business."

The AlgoSec Security Management Suite 6.4, including BusinessFlow will be available on March 12, 2013. Pricing for BusinessFlow starts at $75,000.

To learn more about AlgoSec BusinessFlow and version 6.4, see a live demo at the RSA AlgoSec booth #433.